In the Hedgehogs (Erinaceidae) and Centetidae the tympanic is very slightly developed, forming a small ring.
The zygomatic arch of Hedgehogs and Gymnura is very slender, the jugal being but little developed and the squamosal and maxillae meeting one another; in the Centetidae the jugal is absent and the arch is incomplete.
In this quiet, windless place, on the day when first the haymakers came to the meadows, five little hedgehogs were born in a nest among the roots of a tree, deep in the undergrowth of a tangled hedgerow.
As the owl flew slowly past the fence, she heard the faint sound of a crackling shell--the hedgehogs were feeding on snails.
The doe hare had long since rustled by, and the hedgehogs were busy munching a cluster of earthworms discovered in a heap of refuse not far from the gate, when Reynard stole over the fence-bank, and sniffed at the nest.
The hedgehogs used to come, but they always made themselves disagreeable.
The squirrels who were so clean and careful, and so fond of their children, thought the hedgehogs were very bad creatures indeed.
Dear Sir,--Hedgehogs abound in my gardens and fields.
Hedgehogs make a deep and warm hybernaculum with leaves and moss, in which they conceal themselves for the winter: but I never could find that they stored in any winter provision, as some quadrupeds certainly do.
Pallas, I know, has remarked that hedgehogs will eat hundreds of cantharides beetles with impunity, whereas one or two will cause extreme agony to a cat or dog.
Hedgehogs have had several popular fallacies concerning them.
I liked him because he was so clever at getting snakes and hedgehogs and weasels.
These Fishes may be said to be the Hedgehogs and Porcupines of the sea.
Hedgehogs do not stir out during the day, but they run or walk about the whole night long.
The Hedgehogs owe their name to the singular texture of their hair, which consists of real spines, capable of being thrown erect at the will of the animal.
Hedgehogs will undoubtedly destroy eggs, and one can understand why gamekeepers wage war against them, fearing for the safety of the eggs or young birds of their favorite partridges or pheasants.
Hedgehogs are extremely fond of beetles; they seize on them with great earnestness, and crack them with as much delight as you lads crack nuts.
Hedgehogs are sometimes kept in houses for the purpose of eating the cockroaches so often abounding in kitchens.
I was desirous to try and rear them; but I had grave doubts about the old one, for those who have attempted to rear young hedgehogs have generally found that the mother ate her offspring.
The late Professor Buckland, having occasion to suspect that hedgehogs sometimes preyed on snakes, "procured a common snake and also a hedgehog, and put them in a box together.
Hedgehogs will certainly destroy young birds; but we must remember to set the good any animal does against the harm, and strike the balance; and, as I said, I suspect in this case the good will largely preponderate.
I suspect, however, that hedgehogs seldom molest the nests, and that the injury they do in this respect is very small.
Schopenhauer carried out Aristotle in the vein of his own bitterness and with the truest of images when he likened human society to hedgehogs clustering for warmth, and unhappy when either too closely packed or too widely separated.
Unk-Wunk being of a particularly bold, independent nature, his mother soon left him, and went off to live with a colony of hedgehogs who had located their camp on a distant ledge.
It is well known that hedgehogs are covered with bristles, amounting to sharp prickles, and that they roll themselves up into a ball.
The old legend, that hedgehogs suck the udders of cows as they lie on the ground chewing the cud is, of course, wholly without foundation.
Hedgehogs are nocturnal animals, and frequent woods, gardens, orchards, and thick hedge-rows.
All endeavours to make this animal friendly were unavailing; but I am told, thathedgehogs are frequently quite domesticated; and even shew a degree of affection.
There are instances of hedgehogs performing the office of turnspits in a kitchen; and, from the facility with which they accommodate themselves to all sorts of food, they are easily kept.
The hare carried the holy water, hedgehogs bore the candles, the goats rang the bells, the moles dug the grave, the foxes carried the corpse on the bier.
But he only saw and smelt one thing, and that, those who have known hedgehogs intimately will agree, is not like unto the scent of any blossom.
The hedgehogsdropped their spoons, rose to their feet, and ducked their heads respectfully as the two entered.
The sight of these greedy younghedgehogs stuffing themselves with fried ham makes me feel positively famished.
Yes, please, sir," said the elder of the two hedgehogs respectfully.
When he could not catch deer or monkeys he would eat frogs and beetles; and when he could not catch frogs and beetles he went to his Mother Jaguar, and she told him how to eat hedgehogs and tortoises.
It may be remarked that hedgehogs must be somewhere in the daytime; this is true, but the difficulty is to discover their hiding-place, which is usually a hole or a thick clump of herbage.
There are some people who think hedgehogs may do harm amongst garden plants, turning up roots occasionally in their hunts after insects, perhaps even nibbling young shoots; and this is quite possible.
The Rat-father has started off to the Tinker's to tell the boy where the Hedgehogs are living!
Go out and dig some roots," she said, "and come back with them, and then with them and the hedgehogs we will have a feast.
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